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The Cherwell School - 2024/25 - Secondary
Transfer from Primary or Junior to Secondary School - September 2024 (places allocated on 1st March 2024) Admission Number : 270 ( +15)
Preferences
Total number of preferences for places 1025
First Preferences requested 356
First Preferences offered (percentage offered) 283 offered (79.49%)
Second Preferences requested 294
Second Preferences considered (first preference not offered) 37
Second Preferences offered (percentage offered) 2 offered (5.41%)
Third Preferences requested 257
Third Preferences considered (first and second preferences not offered) 14
Third Preferences offered (percentage offered) 0 offered (0%)
Fourth Preferences requested 115
Fourth Preferences considered (higher preference not offered) 5
Fourth Preferences offered (percentage offered) 0 offered (0%)
Fifth Preferences requested 2
Fifth Preferences considered (higher preference not offered) 0
Fifth Preferences offered (percentage offered) 0 offered (0%)
Sixth Preferences requested 1
Sixth Preferences considered (higher preference not offered) 0
Sixth Preferences offered (percentage offered) 0 offered (0%)
Policy
The Governors or Trust decide the admissions criteria as shown below (in descending order of priority) together with the number of places offered under that criterion:
Places Offered
Criterion Number of Places
Children with an Education, Health and Care (EHC) Plan that names the school 12
1. Children who are "looked after" (LAC) by a Local Authority (LA) within the meaning of Section 22(1) of the Children Act 1989 at the time of their application, and all "previously looked after" children (pLAC) including those who appear to this Admissions Authority to have been in state care outside England (IApLAC) and ceased to be in state care having been adopted 3
2. Up to a maximum of 3 children in a single year group with a parent who is a staff member at the academy 3
3. Children who attend one of the designated feeder schools in the partnership and live in the designated (catchment) area 71
4. Children who live in the designated (catchment) area and have a brother or sister on roll at the time of application who will still be attending at the time of entry 50
5. Children who live in the designated (catchment) area 144
6. Children who attend one of the designated feeder schools in the partnership and have a brother or sister on roll at the time of application who will still be attending at the time of entry but live outside the designated (catchment) area 2
7. Children who have a brother or sister on roll at the time of application who will still be attending at the time of entry but live outside the designated (catchment) area 0
8. Children who attend one of the designated feeder schools in the partnership 0
9. All other children who do not live in the designated (catchment) area and also do not attend a designated feeder schools in the partnership and also do not have a brother or sister on roll at the time of application who will still be attending at the time of entry 0
Total 285
Last Place Offered
6. Children who attend one of the designated feeder schools in the partnership and have a brother or sister on roll at the time of application who will still be attending at the time of entry but live outside the designated (catchment) area 4.671 miles
Home to school distances measured using Straight Line Distance
Unsuccessful Applicants
Criterion Number of Places
7. Children who have a brother or sister on roll at the time of application who will still be attending at the time of entry but live outside the designated (catchment) area 10
8. Children who attend one of the designated feeder schools in the partnership 1
9. All other children who do not live in the designated (catchment) area and also do not attend a designated feeder schools in the partnership and also do not have a brother or sister on roll at the time of application who will still be attending at the time of entry 116
Total not offered 127
Summary
Number of places available 0